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Some middle-income economies, many of which Latin American, have not achieved to make the transition into high-income status for long years and are allegedly trapped in middle-income status. While there is considerable consensus on the proximate causes of this phenomenon, we present a global...
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-country inequality in Latin America from a historical perspective. By comparing the two globalization waves (1870-1914, 1970-present) we … look at the link between globalization and inequality. Many Latin American countries are still dependent on exporting raw … materials, lack an efficient manufacturing sector, and exhibit the highest inequality rates in the world. One hundred years ago …
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economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This … article surveys the key mechanisms of the globalization-inequality relationship. Four strands of literature are reviewed … generate most of the observed facts on trade and inter-skill group inequality, but also between unequally talented workers …
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timing of such high levels of income inequality. Latin America was also the region, not including European Offshoots, which … estimate of income inequality in the Southern Cone of South America (Brazil 1872 and 1920, Chile 1870 and 1920, Uruguay 1920 …) and some assumptions concerning Argentina (1870 and 1920), and Uruguay (1870). We find an increasing inequality trend …
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This report details the divergent paths that the world economy may take and their potential effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. Scenarios are constructed employing a modeling exercise that captures the trade, financial and other linkages between the region and the rest of the world....
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(Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the World Bank in particular to celebrate dynamic growth in Asia, Africa …
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Utilizing a unique data set based on companies' annual reports and local leading financial publications; data from privatization of state-controlled enterprises; world merger and acquisitions (M&As) and financial data from the Mexican (BMV) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges, this paper studies...
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